Saw set



Jan. 30, A' L' STOWELL 1,945,335

SAW SET Filed May 28. 1931 gnou/Hoc Audi/'17 L. Stowe/l dffozna nl Patented Jan. 30, 1934 UNETED STATES PATENT GFFICE SAW SET Austin L. Stowell, New Britain, Conn., assignor to The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application May 28, 1931. Serial No. 540,660

1 Claim. (Cl. i6- 69) This invention relates to the art of devices for end of the plunger. The arrangement so far desetting saw teeth, and has particular reference to scribed is of the usual construction and is shown means for adjusting the anvil with which devices by way of illustration only. of this sort are provided. In accordance with the present invention, there 5 The aim of the invention is to provide a saw iS provided a Cam plate adjustable in a prede- @o set with improved means of a very simple and termined path with respect tothe head and adaptyet effective nature for accurately adjusting the ed to cooperate with the device for holding the anvil to give a greater or lesser set to the saw anvil in place, and which device, in the present teeth as desired, and also for securing the anvil instance, is in the form of a screw 25. In the against displacement from its adjusted position. embodiment shovm in Figs. 1 to 4, this cam plate 65 The improvements of the present invention may is rotatably adjustable about a xed axis, while be incorporated in a saw set at a relatively low in the embodiment shown in Figs. 5 to 8, the cam cost so that a more eiicient tool is obtained at plate is mounted for rectilinear adjustment.

relatively small additional expense. Referring to the first embodiment illustrated, Other objects will be in part obvious and in the saw set frame has, on its forward end, a boss 70 part pointed out more in detail hereinafter. or guide 26 of circular or cylindrical form. The

The invention accordingly consists in the feanotch 16 extends radially into this boss, as shown tures of construction, combination of elements most clearly in Fig. 4. The cam plate is in the and arrangement of parts which will be exempliform of a round disk 27 having a cylindrical 2o ed in the construction hereinafter set forth and and circumferential iiange 28 of such diameter 75 the scope of the application of which will be inas to more or less closely receive the boss 26. The dicated in the appended claim. cam plate 27 has a cam groove 29, the radius of In the accompanying drawing, wherein are which gradually increases from one end to the shown two embodiments which the present inother so that it is inclined, so to speak, with vention may take: respect to the axis about which the plate is ad- 80 Figure 1 is a side elevational View of a cominstable. In the present instance, this cam plete saw set except for the handles; groove is somewhat in the form of a spiral and Fig. 2 is an elevational view looking at the corresponds in width substantially to the diamforward end of the tool; eter of the screw 25. The external periphery of so' Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view the flange 28 may be krlurled, as illustrated, S0 5 taken through the head of the tool; that the fingers will not slip while adjusting the Fig. e is an elevational View looking at the forcam plate. Also, the cam plate may be proward end of the frame, this view being similar to vided with angularly spaced apart numerals 30 Fig. 2 but with the cam plate removed; and which correspond to the different numbers of Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 are views respectively correteeth Der inch With Which SaWS are DrOVlded, 90 sponding to Figs. l, 2, 3 and 4 but showing another and the boss has an indicating mark or notch 3l embodiment ci the invention. with which these numbers may be selectively Referring to the drawing in detail, the saw set, brellght into registryfor illustrative purposes, is shown as having a, In the second embodiment shown in Figs. 5 to 8,

frame comprising a housing 10, a head 11 at the the SaW Set bOdY iS prOVCled With a bOSS 26 95 forward end of the housing, and a handle 12 exhaving straight upper and lower Walls 33 and tending from the rear end of the housing. The 34, respectively, Which are generally at right annumeral13 designates the usual plunger supportgleS t0 the length 0f the IIOtCh 16- The Cam ed for longitudinal movement in the housing and plate 27 has Straight flanges 28 011 tS upper and adapted to be operated by a pivoted lever or hanlOWe'r edges, and tlleSe llangeS are so spaced 100 dle 14. The usual spring 15 is employed for re.. apart as to closely receive between them the turning the plunger and the handle 14 to inbOSS 26' The Cam plate 27 has a Straight but operative or normal positions. The forward wall inclined Cam gIOOVe 29'- Tlle numerals 30 C01- of the head 11 has a notch or slot 16 and, on the respond to the like numerals 30 of the precedinner face of the forward wall and to opposite ing embodiment, while the indicating mark 31' 105 sides of the notch, are ribs 17 which form a keycorresponds to the notch 31.

Way or groove in which the anvil 18 is mounted The manner in which the anvils are adjusted for vertical adjustment. The anvil is provided will be clear from the foregoing description taken with an inclined bearing surface 19 which is parin connection with the following explanation.

allel to and in front of the face 20 on the forward In the first embodiment, when it is desired to 110 adjust the anvil, the screwV 25 is slightly loosened and then the cam plate is turned so as to bring that numeral 30, which corresponds to the number of teeth on the particular saw to be corrected, into registry with the notch 31. lf the saw is provided with eight teeth per inch, the number eight is brought into registry with the notch 31. When the cam plate is thus turned, it will, through the screw 25, move the anvil 18 to the desired position. Then the screw is tightened up, thereby clamping the anvil against its seat and also forcing the cam plate tightly against the boss which it surrounds so that the cam plate will not accidentally turn. When the device is being used, there is a tendency, owing to the angularity of the faces 19 and 20, for the anvil to move downwardly, but such movement is positively prevented due to the engagement between the stem of the screw and the external edge of the cam slot. Thus, should the friction between the anvil and its seat not be sulcient to hold the anvil in adjusted position, movement of the anvil is absolutely guarded against by the cam plate.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 5 to 8, the adjustment is effected in the same general way, except that the cam plate is moved rectilinearly instead of being rotated.

It will be seen that, in each embodiment, the means for determining the adjustment of the anvil and for securely locking the anvil against displacement after it has been adjusted, is eX- trernely simple and adds but little to the expense of the tool. The bosses, which serve as guides for the cani plates, may, if desired, be formed integrally with the frame of the saw set at praC-' tically no additional expense. The cam plates may be formed of sheet metal. The adjustment of the anvil may be very easily and yet accurately accomplished and, as above pointed out, the anvil is securely held in adjusted position and against accidental displacement after it has been adjusted and the screw has been tightened up.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely diierent embodiments of this invention could be made Without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

lt is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

In a saw set, a frame having a boss, an anvil adjustable relative to said frame, a movable cam plate supported and guided by said boss and having a cam slot therein, a screw carried by said anvil for clamping said anvil against the frame, said screw passing through the boss, the frame, and the cam slot and adapted to have its head engaging said cam plate to clamp the same against said boss.

` AUSTIN L. STOWELL. 

